Festival

Festival presentation: 

A 5000 capacity music and arts festival set in rural Herefordshire, West Midlands UK. Nine-stages of music and performance art with dedicated 3-day cinema. Cinema currently curated by MASH Cinema. Previous programmes provided by: Encounters Festival in Bristol, London-based innovators onedotzero, Manchester-based northern Exposures, quality stalwarts BBC Film Network and by Nozstock The Hidden Valley. And live performances from: The Light Surgeons, Max Hattler, Scanone and Modulate.

This is a non-competitive, free to submit festival.

 

Festival Nickname: 

Nozstock

Edition: 

2014

Festival Logo: 

Theme: 

Adult

Adventure

African Films

American Films

Animation

Arabic Films

Art, Dance, Music

Art-house films

Asian Films

Awards

Black Culture Films

British Films

Children

Comedy

Crime

Digital

Documentary

Education

Environnement/Nature

European Films

Family

Fantasy/Science Fiction

Flash

French Films

German Films

Health/Medical

Historical

Homosexuality

Horror films

Human Rights

Independent

International

Italian Films

Japanese Films

Jewish Films

Latin American Films

Market

Multimedia

Music

National

Religious films

Romance

Science

Seminar

Senior

Silent films

Spanish Films

Sport

Student films

Television

Thriller

Underground

War

Western

Women

Youth/Teen

not specified

Submission Rules

The Nozstock Cinetent accepts fictional, documentary and experimental features, short films, music videos and children’s films. These will be screened as par t of Nozstock: The Hidden Valley over the weekend of 1-3 August 2014. Contributors to Nozstock’s homegrown shorts programme range from professional filmmakers to first attempt amateurs, the only specific criteria for qualification being that films are based around a strong original concept.

Nozstock will consider family-friendly feature films for daytime screenings. Otherwise a maximum running time of 30 minutes per film is specified.

This is not a competitive festival, however your work stands to be seen by 5000 visitors. There is no submission fee. Films are non-returnable.

Submission Deadline

Submissions will be accepted from 1 January 2014. The final deadline is 13 June 2014. 

Please send your films electronically to: submissions@nozstock.com

or via snail mail to: Nozstock Cinetent, Rowden Paddocks, Bromyard, Herefordshire, HR7 4LS

Submission Format

Films should be submitted PAL format as hi-resolution standard definition .MOV or .AVI ideally (though DVD is also acceptable) and should include a brief synopsis, submission form, 2 production stills and relevant information and contacts regarding the filmmaker/s.